[ARROW-3084] [Python] Do we need to build both unicode variants of pyarrow wheels?

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/19440
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 18/Aug/18 15:15
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:25
• Resolved: 06/Feb/19 14:54

Description

I noticed that pandas does not provide a UCS2 wheel for Python 2.7. We're building both UCS2 and UCS4. I am curious if the UCS2 wheels are widely used enough to make this worthwhile